Live free and die…
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I’m revealing my gender the old fashioned way right now!
Okay, maybe not right now… it’s a bit cold this morning.
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What is it with Americans and things that go ‘bang’?
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Reinforcing the gender binary with binary explosives. What could go wrong?
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We had a 10,000 acre fire caused by the same crap, that damn near burned the Big Bear mountain to the ground. I personally choked on the fire smoke for a month for that genital reveal stupidity. I’m still having morning asthma, thanks assholes.
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It makes perfect sense to me that the explosive they used is what they use for exploding targets.
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It’s impressive to me that the quarry has been responsibility blowing things up for years and never caused this kind of problem to the community the way these yahoos have.
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Probably because they actually know what they’re doing and don’t set off charges that big. Watch video of any big ground-blasting operation, you’ll see they use a bunch of charges that go off in sequence rather than one big boom. That’s specifically to avoid creating too large a ground shock and damaging nearby things.
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Jesus 80lbs is a lot. Like something from a Mythbusters episode. I mean, it looks like they at least did it in a quarry or something, but still.
Though I doubt an open air blast is going to crack someone’s foundation.
I mean gender reveal or just for fun - I am for blowing stuff up. But you gotta know there is going to be a limit to the size of your boom and that there is a point that it isn’t fun any more. Like people lighting what is basically a quarter sick of dynamite on the 4th of July.
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The woman who first did one (cake based reveal) would like to. Someone get this lady a time machine, stat. Actually, if we have a time machine, we can take our time about it. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/29/jenna-karvunidis-i-started-gender-reveal-party-trend-regret
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My dad worked in demolitions, unless you’re interested in the specifics, don’t watch any movie or TV show with him around, or you’ll hear why it’s wrong. The one surprising true-ish thing? You should be able to calmly walk away from explosions, if you set things so you have to run to avoid a blast, you’re unprofessional.
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I wonder how much explosive material Last Week Tonight used for their quarry explosion a few months ago:
Although I’m sure the fiery, cascading fuel-based explosions have different concussive profiles than tannerite.
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That looks awesome, but yeah, I bet it is a much lower pressure explosion with all the gasoline to give it that orange fire.
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I just love that there is a whole market segment for blowing stuff up when you shoot at it, and the 2A folks have somehow kept it legal to detonate 80 lbs of it.
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I have no idea how to link to “needs more likes” but this needs more likes!
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Or…and I’m just spit-balling here…maybe there ought to be some sort of law limiting how much nitrate explosive you can buy at a time and a modest bureaucratic barrier to buying EIGHTY FUCKING POUNDS.
I know, I know…crazy talk.
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That much Tannerite does seem excessive, even for major stump removal, assuming that it wasn’t homebrew.
After the Oklahoma bombing, I understand that they get pretty squinty at major purchases of ammonium nitrate by non-farmers. The trouble is, legitimate users buy it by the ton.
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